the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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